The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-01

for the hot months And to this number,
CHASTITY and appalling as it is, yet more
must be added this year and next if the
renters of hous IS have their way. This an
nual slaughter of the innocents is some
thing with which society has yet proved
powcrless to cope. The fresh air funds and
seaside homes admirable as their work is.
do but family alleviate it. Perhaps, rather
than render the condition of things still
worse, it would be better that a few thou
sand houses and flats should be vacant from
May to October.
A bright young niece of Maria Mitchell,
of Vassar, is one of the proof-readers on the
new Century dictionary. The work is gone
over six times, she tells me. additions and
emendatiOnS being made each time. The
matter, as it is received from the specialists
who have charge of different departments
of the undertaking, is distributed TO girls
who cut it up, arranging each word with
the comments thereon in its alphabetical
order and FASTING all on big brown paper
sheets. The typewriter is then called into
requisition to make clean copy to put into
the hands Of the printer. The proof-readsr's
task is not an easy one, for she is supposed
to keep track OF a mass of references and
cross references binding the different parts
OF the work together the slips relating to
which fill tiers o. drawers and are as yolum-
nous in the aggregate as the card catalogue
OF good sized library. A couple of new
departures of the dictionary are that it
capitalizes only proper names, and that diff
ferent sounds of the novels and different
meanings OF the same prefxes and suffixes
are designated by aTithmetical powers, as al,
az, etc, up pretty well in the Arabic numer-
ais.
THE NE1GHBORHOoD DARNER.
The last new feminine occupation, Just
establishing itself in New York this
spring, is that of a neighborhood darner
In one family that / know, punctually
every Wednesday comes an ingenious little
body, who comfortably settled with cup
OF coffee III back room sets TO work on the
havoc that three riotous youngsters and an
impatient man have wrought This men
der has a clientele of from dozen to twenty
households 10 which she gives from day to
an hour or two each every week. Very CON
venieilt they find her for the ripping and
cleaning of old gowns and the daining Of
hose and other domestic duties for which in
the hustle and hurry of Vanity Fair they
never fluid time. Her engagements are syS-
tematized and she never goes without work
and more or less good pay. Watching Sle
CHEEKY dame over her task, it does one good
20 see the new system gaining foothold and
TO think what a relief in the long run it
may very likely i.-ove to the overtaxed
American housekeeper. There are members
who are handy at lace and the daintier sorts
of needlework, and if the trade becomes
recognized one it will earn a good many
pennies for women forced to turn bread and
butter winners.
Society will camp out this summer. So
ciety always has a fad dearer than other
fads, and this season it talks already of the
Adirondacks.
The cabins of outgoing steamers are not
Uttered with flowers this spring. The for
get-me-not has quite the go-by in fact. 1t
is the proper caper for the time being to
send basket of oranges or some big plump
Strawberries on board just before the YES
sci slips her cable. i. p. II.